(2013-07-22, 05:27)theredguy Wrote: Suddenly this evening my key repeat situation seems to have changed.

I had never checked the "repeat" box for my arrow key mappings, and things had been working perfectly. When scrolling in XBMC if I held the down arrow, it would start scrolling slowly, then speed up the longer I held it down.

Now tonight if I hold that button down it just moves once. If I turn on repeat in PS3blumote I can get it to repeat, but very slowly. If I decrease repeat rate in settings.ini I can speed it up, but if I change it to something acceptably fast, I am no longer to move just one if I want to.

I'm not sure what has changed, or if I have changed something. I have been mucking with a lot of settings, but I didn't think I changed anything that would cause this.

If I press the down key on an actual keyboard the behaviour is still normal.

Any thoughts?

(2013-07-23, 03:25)theredguy Wrote:

(2013-07-22, 05:27)theredguy Wrote: Suddenly this evening my key repeat situation seems to have changed.

I had never checked the "repeat" box for my arrow key mappings, and things had been working perfectly. When scrolling in XBMC if I held the down arrow, it would start scrolling slowly, then speed up the longer I held it down.

Now tonight if I hold that button down it just moves once. If I turn on repeat in PS3blumote I can get it to repeat, but very slowly. If I decrease repeat rate in settings.ini I can speed it up, but if I change it to something acceptably fast, I am no longer to move just one if I want to.

I'm not sure what has changed, or if I have changed something. I have been mucking with a lot of settings, but I didn't think I changed anything that would cause this.

If I press the down key on an actual keyboard the behaviour is still normal.

Any thoughts?

I've been fooling around with this and I am not making any progress. I think the issue started after the remote control did this weird thing where the PS3 button started flashing red and wouldn't stop. Eventually I held down enter for a while and it stopped (or maybe I pulled the batteries, can't remember). Could this be something about Windows recognizing it as a game controller vs HID device? I've tried removing and adding various parts to no avail. Is there some way do to a "factory reset" on the remote control itself in case it got itself into some weird state? It's like pressing and holding down used to emulate pressing and holding a key, but now it's just like hitting the key once.

Also can someone confirm that if you press and hold down or up, it does in fact scroll through your entries? Now I'm starting to think I dreamed that behaviour.

(2013-08-02, 23:26)navigates Wrote: Not True. With my configuration, the remote does hibernate. Without hibernation battery lasts 3 days. with hibernation it goes on for 45 days. I did notice if I boot directly to xbmc as shell, the hibernate feature does not work and the battery dies in 3 days. I went through two rounds of batteries until i switched back to desktop mode.

(2013-08-02, 23:36)CaptainTivo Wrote:

(2013-08-02, 23:26)navigates Wrote: Not True. With my configuration, the remote does hibernate. Without hibernation battery lasts 3 days. with hibernation it goes on for 45 days. I did notice if I boot directly to xbmc as shell, the hibernate feature does not work and the battery dies in 3 days. I went through two rounds of batteries until i switched back to desktop mode.

Not sure what you mean by "boot directly to xbmc as shell"? Can you please explain? Can you also give your configuration: what BT dongle do you have, what version of OS, etc?

I am running Windows 7 with updates with an ASUS USB BT211 dongle. I boot windows. I pair the remote control, I then run PS3Blumote. I then run XBMC. I have enabled the auto hibernation feature with a one minute timeout. I verify in the debug log that hibernation is attempted. I correlate the time that Blumote indicates that it has hibernated the remote with the current draw at that time and there is NO reduction or fluctuation of the current. As I said, I have tried PS3RemoteSleep and it will hibernate the remote. Since miljbee says he used this same code in his version of PS3Blumote (2.04), it should function just like PS3RemoteSleep, but it does not. I assure you that my configuration does not work. The question is: why not?

(2013-08-03, 02:42)navigates Wrote:

(2013-08-02, 23:36)CaptainTivo Wrote:

(2013-08-02, 23:26)navigates Wrote: Not True. With my configuration, the remote does hibernate. Without hibernation battery lasts 3 days. with hibernation it goes on for 45 days. I did notice if I boot directly to xbmc as shell, the hibernate feature does not work and the battery dies in 3 days. I went through two rounds of batteries until i switched back to desktop mode.

Not sure what you mean by "boot directly to xbmc as shell"? Can you please explain? Can you also give your configuration: what BT dongle do you have, what version of OS, etc?

I am running Windows 7 with updates with an ASUS USB BT211 dongle. I boot windows. I pair the remote control, I then run PS3Blumote. I then run XBMC. I have enabled the auto hibernation feature with a one minute timeout. I verify in the debug log that hibernation is attempted. I correlate the time that Blumote indicates that it has hibernated the remote with the current draw at that time and there is NO reduction or fluctuation of the current. As I said, I have tried PS3RemoteSleep and it will hibernate the remote. Since miljbee says he used this same code in his version of PS3Blumote (2.04), it should function just like PS3RemoteSleep, but it does not. I assure you that my configuration does not work. The question is: why not?

By direct to shell I mean that the windows explorer does not boot and I boot to xbmc as a shell. You have to make a bootup file in a config folder to load all the startup items before xbmc. However that disables the hibernate feature of the ps3blumote.

Question. When the ps3blumote application goes in hibernate, do you see the blue play sign go light blue? If not then I don't think its hibernating. I can check my log file to validate it as well.

Hi. I'm on Windows 7 with the Intel NUC i5 version. I have made the similar configurations fro others on the i3 version of the NUC as well. I use the intel internal wifi and bluetooth card made by Intel. I had tried the bluetooth dongle with the Lenovo Q190 and that was a nightmare in getting the remote to sync and stay synced. With the intel nuc the resync is instant. I can validate the battery draw for you if you'd like. I just don't know how to. Can you specify so I can do it as well?

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(2013-08-05, 19:09)navigates Wrote: @CaptainTivo:
Great Find. I will check that part for myself. I remember my friend also complains that this battery dies very often. I had given him my ini file as well. Thanks a lot for this find. Since I'm waiting for my voltameter. I will rename my ini file and let pstblumote recreate it and check the bluetooth address.

As for your problem with the remote lights, here is my theory. May be wrong. I had a similar problem with the ps3 remote which I had purchased from best buy. My wife did her nails and but the thinner cotton on the remote which made the corner discolored. Being the OCD I am I returned the remote to bestbuy and purchased another one from amazon as an amazon seller.

The remote that came from amazon never gets into the blinking mode which looks like discovery. I'm not sure but I feel since my experience. I doubt that it may be the remote iteself. but you never know. I purchased another ps3 remote from amazon for a friend and his too does not go into the discovery mode.

But another point to note. we both are running nucs with internal bluetooth adapter. Does your other PC have an internal bluetooth. Can you test this functionality there to do a POC?

(2013-08-05, 20:01)CaptainTivo Wrote:

(2013-08-05, 19:09)navigates Wrote: @CaptainTivo:
Great Find. I will check that part for myself. I remember my friend also complains that this battery dies very often. I had given him my ini file as well. Thanks a lot for this find. Since I'm waiting for my voltameter. I will rename my ini file and let pstblumote recreate it and check the bluetooth address.

As for your problem with the remote lights, here is my theory. May be wrong. I had a similar problem with the ps3 remote which I had purchased from best buy. My wife did her nails and but the thinner cotton on the remote which made the corner discolored. Being the OCD I am I returned the remote to bestbuy and purchased another one from amazon as an amazon seller.

The remote that came from amazon never gets into the blinking mode which looks like discovery. I'm not sure but I feel since my experience. I doubt that it may be the remote iteself. but you never know. I purchased another ps3 remote from amazon for a friend and his too does not go into the discovery mode.

But another point to note. we both are running nucs with internal bluetooth adapter. Does your other PC have an internal bluetooth. Can you test this functionality there to do a POC?

Both of my remotes are Sony models CECH-ZRC1U puchased from Amazon. They both exhibit the same behavior. It appears to be time related. If a button is pressed with a few minutes after hibernation, it comes out of hibernation immediately. If I leave overnight, then I get the blinking search. Eventually it does respond, though, so it is probably not really in pairing mode. None of my machines has internal BT. I am using the ASUS USB dongle on all of them.

While I like the Sony PS3 remote, I have to say that the old Firefly that I had was better. The batteries lasted for many months. I had integrated it with Eventghost and was able to have XBMC launch Total Media Theater 5 to play Blu ray rips and it would then switch to keyboard mapping for the TM5. I need to think about how to replicate that setup using the Sony now.

(2013-08-06, 19:25)theredguy Wrote: Is it possible to wake your computer from sleep with this remote? I am also using a Logitech bluetooth keyboard/mouse combo and the keyboard will wake the computer from sleep. Is the Logitech bluetooth dongle doing some kind of magic that can't be done with the remote control?